Mvzns.—New Zealand Leaf-hoppers and Plant-hoppers. 411 
Tegmen short and broad, apically rounded. Pale-brownish, with the 
following areas fuscous: two or three irregular patches near base (some- 
times absent}, three more or less confluent spots making an irregular 
oblique band at half-way, and veins of ante-apical cells also fuscous. At 
about { is a more or less hyaline patch, followed by two more very 
distinct hyaline areas forming a band at 3 and at tip respectively. Outer 
rgi vus or dorsum of tegmen with two fuscous areas separated 
by two whitish spots. 
Hind tibiae with two rows of dark-amber spines sometimes with dark 
bases, eight or nine spines in each row. 
Frons oblong, slightly convex. Antennae-pits nearly black. Basal 
joints of antennae yellow. 
Genitalia uniformly testaceous or brownish. 
Closed tegmina leave exposed the whole of the last unmodified tergite 
and much of the penultimate. 
mm. 
Described from two females. 
Tararua Range (Mount Alpha and Bull Mound), Wellington Province, 
3,300-3,600 ít., February. 
Holotype and paratype in Myers collection, Biology Laboratory (No. 189). 
D. dunensis n. sp. 
A small species easily distinguished by the very pale greenish colour 
almost obsoletely flecked with fuscous, and by the dark eyes. 
Scutellum large, with a smooth glassy anterior portion separated by a 
convex line from the short sharp apex, as in D. hudsonica. Disc pale 
olive-green. Median length about that of pronotum. : 
Abdomen pale greenish-olivaceous with segmental margins paler. 
Tegmen very paie greenish, almost colourless, with very infrequent 
smal] fuscous spots scattered irregularly and surrounded narrowly by 
pale-brownish smudges. Outer edge of clavus with beginning of a broken 
dark-brownish line. Tip of tegmen somewhat truncate. 
Wing as in D. hudsonica. E ч 
Hind tibiae armed externally with two rows of spines containing 
respectively ten and eight. 
Frons shield-shaped as in D. hudsonica, with pale stripe on cephalad 
portion extending along cephalad edge of antennae-pits, which are pale, 
